技术
- 功能应用 - 制造执行系统 (MES)
适用行业
- 汽车
- 建筑与基础设施
适用功能
- 设施管理
- 产品研发
用例
- 添加剂制造
- 快速原型制作
关于客户
EDAG 是德国全球汽车行业最大的独立工程合作伙伴。该公司由 Horst Eckard 于 1969 年创立,现已发展到在全球拥有 7900 多名员工,2013 年总营业额达 6.32 亿欧元。 EDAG 为整个汽车行业(从原始设备制造商到供应商)提供服务,并与世界上一些最令人兴奋的汽车品牌合作。该公司在车辆、生产设施、衍生品和模块的集成开发和生产方面拥有广泛的专业知识。 EDAG 不断寻求新技术和创新流程来简化车辆开发,特别是在轻量化设计领域。
挑战
德国全球汽车行业最大的独立工程合作伙伴 EDAG 正在寻求创新流程来简化车辆开发,特别是在乘用车和商用车的轻量化设计领域。汽车行业面临着提高燃油效率和满足排放法律要求,同时确保安全和有竞争力的价格的挑战。传统的制造方法通常要求设计方案适应制造限制,这可能会限制轻量化设计的潜力。在最近的一个项目中,EDAG 工程师的任务是开发和制造经济实惠的轻型商用车结构,该结构可以满足个别客户的规格,而无需对生产设施进行重大改变。这需要一个不仅能提供最佳设计方法,而且能满足所选制造方法要求的流程。
解决方案
EDAG 利用其工程知识将最先进的计算机辅助工程工具与增材制造等新生产技术相结合。该公司使用最佳实践优化工具 OptiStruct 开发了卡车驾驶室和底盘的轻质仿生结构,然后采用增材制造方法进行制造。拓扑优化和增材制造的结合使 EDAG 能够充分受益于增材制造的设计自由度。工程师们进行了多物理优化以及车辆的综合强度和碰撞需求,以找到最终设计的最佳解决方案。其结果是优化的框架结构集成了大量功能,与采用传统施工方法制造的非优化结构相比,具有显着的重量优势。还设计并分析了驾驶室内专门设计的安全单元,以保护乘员在碰撞情况下免受典型伤害风险。
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